CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2022-41604
High (8.8) in checkpoint zonealarm. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Check Point ZoneAlarm Extreme Security before 15.8.211.19229 allows local users to escalate privileges. This occurs because of weak permissions for the %PROGRAMDATA%\CheckPoint\ZoneAlarm\Data\Updates directory, and a self-protection driver bypass that allows creation of a junction directory. This can be leveraged to perform an arbitrary file move as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 49% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-269
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- checkpoint:zonealarm
References
- https://github.com/Wh04m1001/ZoneAlarmEoP
- https://www.infigo.hr/en/insights/39/elevation-of-privilege-in-zonealarm-extreme-security/
- https://www.zonealarm.com/software/extreme-security/release-history
- https://github.com/Wh04m1001/ZoneAlarmEoP
- https://www.infigo.hr/en/insights/39/elevation-of-privilege-in-zonealarm-extreme-security/